re: Anyone ever read the “Missing 411” books?

Feels like I'm being accused of something.

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They are very good. I really enjoy how he is very strict with his data set, and doesn't try to sway opinion. He basically just lays out the facts, and points out how messed up it is.

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I agree (except for trying to connect cases that happened decades or states apart; sometimes coincidence is actually coincidence). I don't believe in Bigfeet and alien abduction and stupid shite like that. I'm wondering, if anyone has experience as a searcher, what are the real explanations for the cases presented in the books? Are kids and old people really kidnapped wholesale, and dropped off many miles from where they went missing because the kidnappers got nervous? What about armed hunters? Children can't walk up sheer cliffs or 75 miles in 2 days. The author states animal predation isn't possible, how can he rule that out?

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2) A lot of people disappear in parks

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I've watched a few videos and read about several cases and enjoyed them but I don't find anything notable about the fact that a lot of people disappear in national parks compared to random tracts of land elsewhere. More people venture into the wilderness in national parks. Especially inexperienced folks that might feel a false sense of security due to the fact they're in a relatively well traveled 'park' despite the fact that many of these places have vast areas that are rugged, trail-heads are easily accessible, and it's not that hard to get yourself in trouble.

Sure, there are plenty of weird cases, but there are weird cases everywhere, and when you examine the claim most often used to bolster the theory that it's particularly odd (a statistically high number of people go missing in NPs) I suspect the vast majority of the cases aren't all that weird at all and probably have known explanations that make sense when you consider the large numbers of average people that visit those parks.

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